Last time I tried to use Blue Sky it was so incredibly broken. And that was like November 23? I assume at the time that Twitter was exploding with people jumping for life rafts it was even less feature complete. They probably would have just doomed themselves via word of mouth if hordes of people had come straight from Twitter to BS. At least this way they are managing expectations a little bit.
OTOH, having said that, I don't understand why anyone would ever get onto a new commercial social media platform again now the Fediverse exists. Kick in a couple bucks a month to your server admins and the dev team and know that at least you're not the product and not just building up something that is on the road to yet another enshitification.
I mean I think the fact the “red wave” fizzled completely at midterms is an indication that women are voting more liberal and in greater numbers? Nothing politicizes like an entire gender being told their rights are being removed because “think of the children”.
I rolled the sh!t out of mine a few months back (loud popping noise when I went over the front of the foot around onto the side missing a stair) and spent a day limping around but it was pretty good after 24 hours. Still had to take it easy for a couple weeks though. But OTOH I can stand in the sides of my ankles normally so I’m flexible enough this is the first instance of damage ever because the angle was so extreme…
I agree RICE is the way and stay off it if it hurts.
TSLA is so wildly overvalued that it had room for huge swings though. I am curious if they will come back from it again now that Elon has shown himself to be an over privileged idiot rather than the wunderkind that everyone previously thought he was. People no longer respond nearly as well to his "it's coming" promises. Plus the fact they had to downgrade their battery ranges after gaslighting their own customers, Consumer Reports has shown them to be pretty unreliable, etc all have to be piling up against them.
Article talks about how Chrome will be happening almost immediately and I'm like… why? Why would you switch to Chrome when you know it's going to reduce your ability to keep things private. Firefox will be a different story hopefully, but even then it will be interesting to see if it can pass the fingerprint test finally on an iPhone. (Currently nothing can.)
Ah, good old NYT. "Trump caught on film eating babies. How is this bad for Joe Biden?"
Of course the courts can disqualify him! The man already tried to overthrow the government once. The whole purpose of the insurrection clause is—you guessed it!—to stop insurrectionists from being able to hold office any longer. This would be his second time!
It doesn't fucking matter in a way, we still have to all vote Biden to stop the apocalypse.
But if anyone wanders by your house or stops you and asks you to sign a petition for ranked choice voting and/or open primaries in your state, FFS say yes. It's the only way we're ever going to get to choose someone besides the one random asshat the D's and R's throw out there that are barely discernible from each other usually. (OK in the case of Trump vs Biden the gap is huge, I'll totally give you that though.)
And it could very much make a large difference in getting in more interesting candidates at the state government level.
This is the fun of close-door testimony... we don't have Fauci's actual testimony, just some guy playing Faux News telephone about it and trying to pump more energy into the "why were we ever worried about COVID?" side.
I'm pretty much against it because I feel like it's an opportunity to have to explain which BSG is actually the good one of them all to everyone you ever talk to about it. (Also, way way too soon for another reboot!)
Doesn't contain The Arrival either. Or Moon, or Alien or Twelve Monkeys… Basically there are a lot of more deserving candidates then Gravity, Ad Astra and Sunshine.
Doesn’t contain Moon, 12 Monkeys, The Arrival, Alien, District 9… there are quite a few movies I would out ahead of Ad Astra and Sunshine at the very least. And possibly Gravity and Solaris too. Also, listing 2001 in 15th place???
I kind of wish there was a way to “forward” your community if you realize someone else is doing a better job in a different instance too. So essentially all your users and traffic would just redirect to the other instance from that point on.
I am subscribed to like 3 different printsf communities and only one is even halfway active at this point. Would be nice if there was a way to consolidate under one banner.
This isn’t technically fully biopunk because space ships and stuff, but the biology of the world in Prospector plays a huge role and I’d definitely recommend seeing it in part just because of how well they did portraying an alien world with a lot of weird alien quirks to it.
I feel like it’s unfortunate they didn’t highlight the open source options where the customer is not the product as their article closer, but rather of a quote about how Reddit could be such a better place. Seems to entirely miss the point.
This. We tried that last election cycle and be wasn’t happy with the results from the people and attempted to falsify and overthrow them. NO SECOND CHANCES.
My guess is because this is what they look like when they're blinking or asleep? It's transparent, so probably basically looks the same as open eyes and the model probably doesn't have any closed opaque eyelids to reference as a result. (Although you are correct the AI seems to be getting sassy with you in this image, lol.)
Frogs have three eyelids: an upper eyelid that blinks to keep their eyes moist, a lower eyelid that stays still, and a third semi-transparent eyelid called the nictitating membrane. The nictitating membrane is used for swimming, camouflage, hibernation, and sleeping.1 It is a thin, transparent eyelid that protects frogs' large, fragile eyes, making their eyes waterproof and keeping them safe from debris.
Last time I tried to use Blue Sky it was so incredibly broken. And that was like November 23? I assume at the time that Twitter was exploding with people jumping for life rafts it was even less feature complete. They probably would have just doomed themselves via word of mouth if hordes of people had come straight from Twitter to BS. At least this way they are managing expectations a little bit.
OTOH, having said that, I don't understand why anyone would ever get onto a new commercial social media platform again now the Fediverse exists. Kick in a couple bucks a month to your server admins and the dev team and know that at least you're not the product and not just building up something that is on the road to yet another enshitification.